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and two or three statues after the antiquerepresenting satyrs and nymphs in the worst possible style of
sculptured art. On one side the garden was overshadowed by a pair of crazy studiosusually hired out to the
more obscure and youthful practitioners of British art. Opposite these another lofty out-buildingsomewhat
more carefully finishedand boasting of a communication with the house and a private door on the back lane
enshrined the multifarious industry of Mr Pitman. All dayit is truehe was engaged in the work of education
at a seminary for young ladies; but the evenings at least were his ownand these he would prolong far into the
nightnow dashing off 'A landscape with waterfall' in oilnow a volunteer bust ('in marble'as he would
gently but proudly observe) of some public characternow stooping his chisel to a mere 'nymph' for a
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gasbracket on a stairsir')or a life-size 'Infant Samuel' for a religious nursery. Mr Pitman had studied in Paris
and he had studied in Romesupplied with funds by a fond parent who went subsequently bankrupt in
consequence of a fall in corsets; and though he was never thought to have the smallest modicum of talentit
was at one time supposed that he had le [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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